Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community: Eight Essays [Paperback]

Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here. The New York Times Book Review

In this collection of essays, first published in 1993, Wendell Berry continues his work as one of America's most necessary social commentators. With wisdom and clear, ringing prose, he tackles head-on some of the most difficult problems confronting us near the end of the twentieth centuryproblems we still face today.

Berry elucidates connections between sexual brutality and economic brutality, and the role of art and free speech. He forcefully addresses America's unabashed pursuit of self-liberation, which he says is still the strongest force now operating in our society. As individuals turn away from their community, they conform to a rootless and placeless monoculture of commercial expectations and products, buying into the very economic system that is destroying the earth, our communities, and all they represent.Praise forSex, Economy, Freedom, & Community

Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here. Charles E. Little,The New York Times Book Review

Berry's words are those of a steward. He is trying to preserve that which is intimate, honest, and good. He is an intense, angry, but always caring critic of American culture. His aim is to instill a sense of mission that would cause his readers to begin to buildor rebuildtheir local communities. Lexington Herald-Leader

Wendell Berry is among our wisest and most clearsighted thinkers; one can hardly speak of him without the word 'prophetic' coming to mind. Writing with grace and sanity from his Kentucky farmstead, his words contain enough common sense to turn absurdity on its head, and because the truth is both simpler and more subtle than any ideology, to chal3œ